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Ruin & Starvation. Haiti has always been poor. Now it is getting poorer. Per capita income averages $70 a year, per capita food averages 1,780 calories a day, and life expectancy is a bare 32 years−all three the lowest in the hemisphere. Illiteracy is 90%, and population density is 415 persons per square mileboth the highest of any Latin American nation...
...Prime Minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964, a talented economist who as Vice-Minis ter and later Minister of Finance and International Trade guided Japan's postwar economic recovery almost continuously since 1947, pursuing his ex pansionist program as Prime Minister with a promise to double per capita income within ten years, until in 1961 Japan had the world's highest growth rate (18.9%) but also a record $1.5 billion trade deficit and the beginnings of a recession; of pneumonia, following surgery for throat cancer; in Tokyo...
Depressed Market. Fidel's impatience was understandable. In the past five years, per-capita income has dropped 15% in Cuba. After an abortive attempt at crash industrialization, Castro has again turned priority effort toward sugar, Cuba's one cash crop. The current harvest has produced a healthy 6,000,000 tons. Trouble is, so much of it (4,800,000 tons) has already been committed-to Russia, Red China and other countries, under barter agreements-that only 800,000 tons are left, after domestic needs, to sell for badly needed foreign exchange...
...Negro policemen -if they can pass an examination. But for the most part, the demands of civil rights advocates have been thwarted by the Ku Klux Klan. Although Klan rolls are secret, it has been estimated that in Bogalusa and the surrounding countryside there are probably more Klansmen per capita than anywhere else in the South...
...City's 1,500-sq.-mi. watershed system has received only 131 in. of precipitation, well below the 80-year average of 23 in. for the first half of the year. In normal times, the city's industries and 8,000,000 inhabitants use a daily per-capita average of 154 gal. By dint of the restrictions imposed, that average is now down to 125 gal. and may be cut even more. As of last week, New York City's 476.5 billion-gal.-capacity reservoirs held only 240.7 billion...